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What on Earth Did Schumer Say to Kerry?

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November 14, 2006 6:38 PM

ABC's Z. Byron Wolf Reports: For anyone who needed more evidence that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) is out of favor with Democrats, it appeared that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) kicked him out of the Democrats' leadership walk on Tuesday.

As the new Senate leaders departed from the Old Senate Chamber on their way to the Ohio Clock Corridor to talk about their agenda, the election of the leaders, and Iraq, John Kerry -- not a member of the new leadership -- walked out of the room behind new Majority Leader Harry Reid, Majority Whip Dick Durbin, Caucus Secretary Patty Murray and Caucus Vice-Chair Schumer. It is, after all, a public hallway in the Senate.

This reporter was standing with a scrum of journalists as Democrats left their caucus. It appeared that when Schumer noticed Kerry behind him, he turned around said something to Kerry. 

We obviously don't know what Schumer said, but Kerry stopped in his tracks, watched the four Democratic leaders walk on without him, and when then he ducked between two of the marble statues in the hallway, which leads from the old Senate Chamber to the new Senate floor. Someone trying to project might say that Schumer had told Kerry to get the heck out of the leadership shot and Kerry, after digesting the request for a moment, did it.

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"I'd love a time machine to know where we'd be right now, after 911, in a Kerry administration."

The US would be part of Quebec and would have surrendered to the UN by now.

Kerry is an idiot, and the Dems understand that simple fact. His political career is over as per the Dem leadership.

Posted by: Sanity in NYC | Nov 15, 2006 12:12:27 AM

Hey steeltorn,

Just to let you know Kerry lost the 2004 election, yet 911 occurred on Sep 11, 2001 so what was your point???? And no he is not an American hero just a political hack who served just long enough (3 purple hearts, no hospital stay or time off) to convince people like you he was a hero!!!!

Posted by: ender | Nov 15, 2006 1:28:43 AM

Just to let you know Kerry lost the 2004 election, yet 911 occurred on Sep 11, 2001 so what was your point???? And no he is not an American hero just a political hack who served just long enough (3 purple hearts, no hospital stay or time off) to convince people like you he was a hero!!!!

Posted by: ender | Nov 15, 2006 1:29:52 AM

Why didn't Kerry just call them chickenhawks?
The leftymeme is that no one can have an opinion unless they served in combat in Vietnam.

Posted by: mortf | Nov 15, 2006 2:30:30 AM

Good Kick Kerry to the curb.
Hes guilty of treason and should
be ostrasized even by the dimocrats, they follow suit no
plan no loyalty

Posted by: Judith | Nov 15, 2006 6:29:53 AM

John Kerry give me the creaps. I would not want him in any of my photos as well.

Posted by: Mike Jones | Nov 15, 2006 6:48:10 AM

Kerry is a Bonesman stooge who rolled over for the election theft in '04 and tried to sabotage this one.

"Do you know General Russell?"

Posted by: Michael Fury | Nov 15, 2006 7:38:21 AM

Your article titled "What on earth did Schumer say to Kerry?" is exactly why I do not trust reporters any longer. You gave me the facts, but rather than allow me to come to my own conclusion with them you choose to tag your opinion at the end. We are capable of coming to our own conclusion. Just give us the FACTS. PLEASE!!! When will this opinion based reporting end?

Posted by: r. striggow | Nov 15, 2006 8:14:09 AM

John Kerry has become the Michael Dukakis of the modern day Democrats. What a goof. He always believed he was smarter than Bush (although his GPA at Yale was actually lower than Bush's), yet every time he opened his mouth, his foot went straight into it. Bush may have had more verbal gaffes, but Kerry's were far more stupid.

He is a has-been, and needs to stay out of the public eye if he doesn't want to cause any more damage to the Democratic party.

Posted by: mike garcia | Nov 15, 2006 9:17:22 AM

New term in the Webster dictionary coming out soon. Swift boating: [swift boh-ting] 1.The revealing of another persons conduct from a past time through the use of verifiable documentation, truthful witness accounts, and/or any other form of undeniable facts to discredit that person for political purposes. 2. A truthful statement or report that can not be intellgently disputed that puts a politician in a bad light. Unlike slander which are false statements or reports. The only bothced joke in America is John Kerry and I hope Democrats never find this out.

Posted by: WessO | Nov 15, 2006 11:50:10 AM

We wouldn't have a "post 911" Kerry administration, had the Sumprere Court not selected Bush over Gore.

Posted by: Andrea Shane | Nov 15, 2006 12:35:48 PM

It's amazing to me that masses of people who watch a political commercial over and over, believe it, and then vote that way. What sheep!

Posted by: steeltom | Nov 15, 2006 1:14:59 PM

As a former Marine and Desert Storm vet, and the son and grandson of WWII and Vietnam veterans, I can say that no one in my familiy or anyone I have ever met who served in uniform has ever had a good thing to say about Kerry. His words regardless of his intent have an effect and that effect is for what he is remembered. This is exactly like hearing the phrase "I support the troops but not the fight" - if the troops support the fight by re-enlistng at record highs, how is your support beneficial to the troops when they obviously believe something different about the fight.

I'm so tired of the birth-right American who will do nothing for this country but offer rhetoric to the problems and who believes they have the best interest of the military at heart but opposed what the military does. It's like some of you out there are for the troops before you are against them...or vice versa.

Kerry is the definition of a botched joke and his fellow (D)s recognize that.

Posted by: JCRUE | Nov 15, 2006 2:13:09 PM

Kerry is not very bright. What is amazing is how he has advanced so far in politics. To nominate him for President, the Democratic Party must have a death wish. Let's hope they put him up again.

Posted by: LARRY HOGAN | Nov 15, 2006 3:25:09 PM

Crimeny, this is considered a story?

A bored reporter's speculation about what MIGHT have been whispered by someone walking down the hall to someone who walked out a door into the hall?

I had to look at the byline to make sure this wasn't written by Matt Drudge.

Posted by: itsme | Nov 15, 2006 7:31:55 PM

Kerry is no longer a useful idiot. It's about time that he goes away. I'm surprised the American public has tolerated this true American Traitor for this long.

Posted by: b sully | Nov 16, 2006 12:49:29 AM

John Kerry is not electable....but he is a good senator and indeed, a war hero. Chuck Shumer is an intellect but neither a good senator nor a hero. If John Kerry had the grace to step aside then good for him and only more evidence of what is wrong with Shumer.

Posted by: brasilrules | Nov 17, 2006 12:08:52 AM

"do your homework, get good grades and you can marry up, live off of the efforts of a deceased Republican and be a no-show senator"

Why an admitted war criminal and confirmed liar serves in congress speaks volumes about the people who send him there.

The fact that foolish voters in Massachusetts keep sending John Kerry to congress is mindbogling beyond belief. Explained by the possibility that those who vote for him are as dishonset.

Posted by: AC | Nov 17, 2006 10:52:29 AM

I think it's newsworthy. I think Schumer's dismissing of Kerry in the leadership shot while it might not be front-page news, is certainly a speculatory way of discerning the pulse of the party where Kerry is concerned. I think attention to details like this are crystal ball predictions of things to come. Having said that, it would appear the democrats no longer require the services of the bumbling, awkward, Herman Munster-looking John Kerry.

Posted by: Mady | Nov 18, 2006 7:33:56 AM

Tom Vaitys- Sen Kerry has the God- awful habit of being right in all the wrong ways and wrong in all the right ways.

Sure he's been pretty spot on in a lot of assessments- notably that we have shortchanged law enforcement ability to combat terrorists by favoring funds to Iraq. Frankly the war in Afghanistan should have been the real ball game because Bin Laden has been there and not in Iraq.

BUT 30 SOME YEARS AGO...

Kerry sealed his fate by desecrating the uniform- he did that at a time when it was politically expedient to do so. Times Change. Despite the fact that he was a combat veteran- he turned his back on the uniform- not privately mind you- but with such extreme candor and vividness so as to permanently encapsulate him in that position and define him so ever since.

At the time Kerry may have been a crusader of his convictions- unfortunately for him he is now a convict of those convictions as well.

Aside from that- Kerry lost the Democrats the 2004 Presidential bid. Most likely by refusing to nominate Bob Graham of Florida as VP (a serious heavy hitter) Kerry opted for the junior Senator with less clout and experience.

Anyways-The Result Equals- If Kerry is in the Democratic leadership then Democrats look anti military and soft on terror. Kerry has no centrist credentials- and we carried the day at the booths for once!

With Kerry out of a leadership gig he’s not a liability.

I highly doubt that soft, left, anti military and non closer is the look and label Chuck is looking for.

Posted by: Tom Vaitys | Nov 18, 2006 10:21:42 PM

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